A closely watched recession indicator flashed Friday after a weak July jobs report showed an unexpected surge in the unemployment rate. The US economy added 114,000 jobs in July, badly missing ...

If you want to understand the overall health of the economy, pay attention to key financial market indicators, including the unemployment rate, national debt and the consumer price index.

The unemployment rate is one of the most important economic indicators followed by consumers, investors, economists, and the Federal Reserve. Here's what it means, how it's measured, and how it ...

The rising unemployment rate narrowly triggered the so-called Sahm Rule recession indicator—just as investors’ concern about flagging growth hit a high point on Thursday. It posits that a ...

And Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the indicator doesn’t carry any particular significance. So, first, the data: ...